Two alumni made their way back to the California campus last month to recruit future graduates to the noble work of Catholic liberal education.
Having recently completed training at the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program in Wichita Falls, Texas, Maj. Conklin will soon be heading back to North Carolina, to pilot the F-15E Strike Eagle.
Kathleen (Ellis ‘99) Goodrich and Dr. Andrew Seeley (’87) have co-edited Classic Hymns for Catholic Schools — a collection of 50 traditional hymns suitable for congregational harmonic singing.
How it works, and what it tells us, is the subject of a video featuring Thomas Aquinas College tutor and alumnus Dr. Gregory L. Froelich (’83).
While in Warsaw last month to promote the translation of his two latest books into Polish, alumnus author scholar Dr. Peter A. Kwasniewski (’94) spoke before some of the country’s top educators about, as he described it, “the immense value of classical liberal education in itself and in the modern world.”
It’s a Saturday in September, and Grace (Kelly ’12) Michael — principal of St. Sebastian’s — is hosting a ribbon-cutting and blessing ceremony to mark the completion of major renovations at her once-crumbling school, thanks to a grant she secured through a philanthropic foundation.
Alumnus scholar Dr. Michael Waldstein (’77) has authored a new book, Glory of the Logos in the Flesh: St. John Paul’s Theology of the Body.